SPCSS-TN urges Parliamentarians to prevent passage of VBSA Bill

The State Platform for Common School System – Tamil Nadu on Saturday urged Parliamentarians to save education by preventing the passage of the Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan (VBSA) Bill, 2025.

In a statement, they said the VBSA Bill was referred to the Joint Parliamentary Committee. “A JPC cannot discuss a Bill that doesn’t fall within the parliamentary jurisdiction. The Parliament has no power to deliberate on a subject entered in List 2,” they added.

P.B. Prince Gajendra Babu, general secretary, SPCSS-TN, said the VBSA Bill, 2025, would deny education to the “bahujan”. “As the government withdraws from education funding and allows total access to the private players, more importantly, the foreign players, the State governments will have no authority and control to stop education from becoming a commercial commodity,” he said.

They noted that every research, every faculty, and every student would be under the watchful eyes of the Union government as academic freedom would be lost.

“A reading of Entry 44 of List 1, Entry 32 of List 2, and Entry 25 of List 3 under Schedule 7 of the Constitution of India will help understand that the Union government can only coordinate and determine the standards in higher education,” the statement said.